Eckuity Capital Launches Fund II and Backs Automata Technologies June 25, 2026 Fund II reaches first close and is already deploying capital Fund II leads Automata Technologies’ Series C, alongside global science and technology leader Danaher Fund II builds on a first fund fully deployed across 14 high growth life sciences companies
Overture Life Launches Global ICSI.A Center of Excellence Program, Bringing the World’s First Automated ICSI into Clinical Use Across Five Leading Global Fertility Centers June 25, 2026 CERAS (Peru), Memorial Hospital (Turkey), CENALFES (Bolivia), Seoul IVF (South Korea), and Procrearte (Argentina) are among the first clinics in the world to replace manual intracytoplasmic sperm injection with Overture Life's automated, standardized ICSI.A platform, setting a new benchmark for reproducible IVF outcomes.
Consulting giants face up to AI-reckoning June 25, 2026 Shares in major consultancy firms have dropped sharply as investors fret over the impact of AI on the industry. Maria Ward-Brennan and Rosie Harris-Davison look at whether the threat is real. A bloodbath is unfolding across the professional services sector as artificial intelligence (AI) hammers the shares of global consulting giants like Accenture, IBM and [...]
Private credit firms draft in City advisers to help with ‘meltdown’ stress test June 25, 2026 Firms taking part in the Bank of England’s inaugural private credit stress test have been allowed to draft in external City advisers to help them manage the substantial workload required to respond to the doomsday scenario, which participants have branded “extremely severe”. So-called shadow banks will be allowed to lean on consultants, two people involved [...]
New Research Shows Prioritisation of Digital Twins and AI Initiatives to Accelerate Predictive Insights and Infrastructure Resilience June 24, 2026 Nearly two thirds of infrastructure organisations cite disconnected systems as barriers to achieving resilience goals, and look to digital twins to unify fragmented data
Finance’s future needs technology — but it will be defined by people June 24, 2026 For years, the future of finance and accounting has been framed mainly as a story about technology. Artificial intelligence, automation and data platforms are reshaping the profession at pace. They will change how work gets done, who does it and what employers and clients expect. But if that is the whole story, we are missing [...]
MSCI Announces the Results of the MSCI 2026 Market Classification Review June 23, 2026 MSCI released the results of the MSCI 2026 Market Classification Review. Key takeaways from this year’s review include: Reclassification of Bulgaria from Standalone to Frontier Market status Assessment of shareholder transparency and coordinated trading concerns in the Indonesian and Turkish equity markets, acknowledging the announced steps undertaken by both markets to address these matters and [...]
Interactive Brokers Expands AI Integration Capabilities – Adding ChatGPT and Grok to Its Growing Suite of Agentic Trading Tools June 22, 2026 Additional Asset Classes Available Including Options and Futures
Finalists Announced for the Second Edition of the Reply AI Music Contest, the International Competition Exploring the Relationship Between AI and Live Performance June 22, 2026 The jury will announce the winners on Saturday, 4 July, on the stage of Kappa FuturFestival in Turin
Bank of England unveils Armageddon stress test scenario ‘more severe than the financial crisis’ June 19, 2026 The Bank of England is poised to probe how private markets’ respond to a theoretical financial Armageddon scenario in which stocks plummet and prices soars that industry figures have said is more severe than the global financial crisis. Watchdog officials will scrutinise how alternative asset managers react to the scenario’s five-year downturn in financial conditions [...]